Arizona Department of Water Resources

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled against the Navajo Nation Thursday in a landmark decision about the tribe’s rights to the water in the Colorado River. KNAU’s Melissa Sevigny reports.

A new round of negotiations about sharing water from the Colorado River is set to kick off next week.

The director of the Arizona Department of Water Resources has designated parts of Mohave County off limits to new irrigation amid dwindling groundwater levels.

The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation has declared a shortage on the Colorado River that will take effect at the start of next year. KNAU’s Melissa Sevigny…

The Arizona Department of Water Resources has endorsed a company’s proposal to sell water from farmland near the Colorado River to a a fast-growing…

Arizona water regulators have rejected an application by an electric company to use groundwater to cool the nuclear power plant west of Phoenix because…

Arizonans celebrated the completion of their Drought Contingency Plan yesterday, passed by the state legislature just hours before a deadline set by the…

Arizona is renewing a focus on a drought contingency plan for the shrinking supply of Colorado River water, and other Western states are paying close…

The Central Arizona Project has abandoned a plan to purchase seven farms in Mohave County and transfer the water to central Arizona. KNAU’s Melissa…

The Gila River Indian Community has agreed to leave forty thousand acre feet of its Colorado River water in Lake Mead. The goal is to stave off future…